Mont-Soleil Open Air Lineup

Last night it was rainy and we didn't go in. But
the whole thing
taking place in our backyard, we heared NOA, the Lovebugs and David Hallyday just fine inside our house, be it with the backdrop of vibrating windows.

Root object is now named "Home" during the first initialisation of an application.

Changed makeSelectOptions to also work with a simple array of options rather than requiring value/string pairs.

Context of "this" in Mocha Objects now refers to the object that the current request resolves to.

Fixed a bug where the original title was replaced by the title specified for the current audience.

The adminEmail specified in the server.properties file is now used as the default contactEmail address.

Various minor/cosmetic bug fixes.

Diving deeper into OpenMocha:

As with version 0.5, simple "hello world" level examples are included in the default installation. They illustrate the general approach, how you would build your projects based on the OpenMocha framework as a "solution template". Basically, any files inside the apps/main directory besides the framework.zip file either override or extend the code contained inside the framework.zip file.

To get a much deeper look at the inside of the framework, and hence the default code that you can override and extend, do the following: Copy apps/main/framework.zip to apps/framework.zip and unzip it. This will create apps/framework as a separate demo application, revealing its example source code. To auto-start the new application and make it available via http://127.0.0.1:8080/framework/ you need to add "framework" on a new line to the apps.properties file and restart OpenMocha.

If you have any questions or if you are hitting a wall then please do not hesitate to ask either via private mail or
the mailing list
.

Mocha was the original project name of the very
popular scripting language known as
Javascript,an extremely rich, powerful
and flexible programming language that has a large, highly developed
syntax, a huge library of standard methods (functions) and built-in
capabilities to create complex, object-oriented data structures and
methods.

The kind of scripting we have seen
in web browsers for the last decade, I continue to call Javascript. I
use the term Mocha to refer to the usage of Javascript beyond that
scope, often on both the client-side and server-side and integrated
with other technologies such as XML and Java, producing "Web 2.0"
applications.

"[We] like to consider the hundreds of interconnected
Gopher servers to be one large distributed entity; thus,
we speak of "the Gopher", with its many small parts,
spread throughout the Internet. The Gopher is always
growing, always changing. It's everywhere, but you can't
locate it; it's always there, but you can't see it. ...
The Gopher is the largest and most practical example of
applied pantheism in the history of mankind."

When I heard that Al Gore bought the News World International channel and was planning a mix between MTV and CNN, a concept I had in the back of my mind for the last decade, I was looking forward to see how this concept would fly.

Well,
current.tv
is here - and while I see the mix, it's not the mix I saw. The funny thing is that they acknowledge themselves that
the kind of TV they make is being replace by the Internet
when they say "Right now, at this moment in history, TV is the most powerful medium in the world". My idea of a mix between MTV and CNN on the other hand would be the kind of TV that will survive the Internet. I'll carry it around with me some more.

The concepts OpenMocha is based on have been deployed in Mocha Objects
through versions 3, 4 and 5 for many years and are quite mature. With
OpenMocha these concepts have been moved to an open source foundation
and while OpenMocha is not yet "feature complete", the features that
are currently implemented are stable and OpenMocha 0.5 or later can be
used in production.

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